Windows 2000 Professional Certification Exam for Executives
Give this test to your boss...only if he has a sense of humor!
What's a DBA? - An Overview
Ever wonder what a DBA does? Ever had someone ask you what your job entails? Here's an overview of what a DBA does. Reader feedback will be used to update this article over time.
The Self-Taught DBA
Are you thinking of becoming a master DBA? If so, find out how you can in this article.
An Interview with Louis Davidson
Want to learn more about some of your favorite authors. Check out this interview with Louis Davidson, author of Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design.
Installation Problems in SQL Server 7.0
This article examines some of the common issues that may occur when installing SQL Server 7.0
Aggregating a Set of Hierachical Records
A great deal of data in any RDBMS is hierarchial. This article presents a technique for aggregating this data.
Review: Log Explorer 2.1
Lumigent has updated their transaction log analysis tool to include a number of features that every DBA will find handy. Read this review of a great new product.
Strategies for Backing Up and Restoring Transactional Replication
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 allows you to restore transactional replication databases without reinitializing subscriptions or disabling and reconfiguring publishing and distribution. You can set up replication to work with log shipping, enabling you to use a warm standby server without reconfiguring replication.
Design Oversight - Preliminary Review
We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design.
Blogs
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
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I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
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If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?